One of our favorite US made audio companies, Ayre Acoustics, has come out with a new product that is just super cool for the money. Its also has some really interesting history behind it. Every Great Hero Begins with an Origin Story Neil Young, of Crosby, Stills,...

For the past several years, I’ve had my eye on a company called Audioengine. They had not moved up on my radar until recently as their products seemed too inexpensive to be very good… Well shame on me! After hearing just how good the $149 Audioquest Dragonfly...

If you follow my blogs, you know I am a big fan of the Colorado based company Ayre Acoustics. (I even have one of their power amps in my main system.) What you may not know is that Ayre designed the electronics inside Neil Young’s new Pono music player. Figuring...

Computer audio website AudioStream takes a close listen to the Ayre QB-9 DSD DAC: “Compared to the older QB-9, everything comes into clearer and more distinct focus while also sounding more fully formed. In a word the QB-9 DSD sounds more natural. I would say...

“Sticking with its policy of upgradability Ayre has been upgrading QB-9 DACs to the QB-9 DSD version for $500, the same as the price difference between the new and old model. As the name changed to QB-9 DSD implies, the sound quality improvement to this DAC is...